True Colors of Ladies" / Finished by Fan Daming /
Time: 15:50-16:10 PM, January 6, 2017 (Friday)
Venue: Ground Floor, Henglu Art Museum, No. 202, Nanshan Road, Hangzhou Lecture Hall
(Henglu Art Film Bar Jane Campion's work "Ladies
True Colors " after viewing scene) Participants: (Preface) Fan Daming, He Ji, Li Ze, Wang Xilin, Han Meidi, Yu Yiping, Hong He, Lu Yayuan, Lu Zhongpei, Fan Dayin, Sun Fengfeng (viewers: Wang Wenren, Zhang Yusu, Zhang Yuguang, Jiang Tianhong, Tian Ying, Xi Hanghong, Ji Boqing, Ren Tongyu, Wang Xiling, Peng Mingming, Bao Xiaolong, Zhu Jianyun, Zhang Wumei, Luo Lisheng, etc.)
Host: Fan Daming
Records:
With the development of the plot, Sun Fengfeng 's activity location is changing, which also shows the changes in her marriage and emotional life
Fan Daming: In the name of commemorating 120 years of world cinema, we did the "World Film Annual Exhibition" last year, and this year we will do another annual exhibition: "Master Classics Annual Exhibition". The classic films of 9 world film masters are arranged for 9 months of the whole year, and they will be a director’s film month on a monthly basis. There are 9 masters and only one female director. So, choosing Jane Campion, a New Zealand director born in 1954, is the only one. There is nothing to say. I have four of her films in my possession. This month is approaching the Spring Festival, so I can only arrange three films. Her "Sexual Smoke" is not listed in the Tibetan films, which is relatively weak. As one of the 9th, Jane and other directors also unintentionally formed the "one and eight" posture in terms of gender. "The True Colors of Ladies" was produced in 1996. It was a film shot 20 years ago and adapted from the novel of the same name by the famous American novelist Henry James. And the story happened earlier: the film began to tell us that it was in Garden Hill, England in 1872, and the specific location should be in Garden Court. The heroine Isabel Archer originally came from the United States. She probably stayed at the manor’s uncle's house because of the early death of her parents. The uncle was a banker, and her sick son was her cousin Ralph. Isabel has reached the age when a female consortium should be married, so Lord Warburton proposes to her at the beginning of the film. According to his uncle, the lord is very good, with an annual income of 100,000 pounds, has several large houses, and has a seat in the hospital, but Isabel flatly rejected him. The story begins with her cousin Ralph, who has always been in love with her, and the female journalist Henry Aita accompanied her to London. With the gradual development of the plot, the location of the protagonist's activities is also constantly changing, for example, they went to Florence, Rome and other places in Italy-this is her real choice for marriage and love, until she leaves her husband and returns to England. The change of location also shows the change of her marriage and emotional life. This is quite symbolic.
Isabel Archer has dreams, but in the end she is suffering
Hoji: Girl Isabel Archer has dreams, and her dreams are also strange, but in the end she is suffering. The girl was fooled twice. It is easy for an old man to lie to a little girl. In contemporary China, there are not too many men who are single-minded. I advocate single girls and don't believe in love.
Isabel married a hypocritical man, but her heart is rich, she is not stupid
Li Ze: Isabel Archer believed in others because of his innocence. As a result, he rejected many good men. Instead, he married a hypocritical man, who was actually a devil. I think Isabel's heart is rich, she is not stupid.
The film reflects the purity and nobility of love; Isabel finally considers her cousin and represents her consciousness.
Wang Yanlin: I just listened to the opinions of the young man (Li Ze), and I think it is much better than that of Lao He. I think Lao He's views are superficial. In fact, this film just praised the man. Of the three men around Isabel, two are good and one is bad. I hope not to look at the world with gray eyes. See hope for the world. The themes of war and love are the most moving. This film is mainly about love, which also reflects the purity and nobility of the characters in love. Isabel finally considers her cousin and represents her consciousness. There are many details about this aspect in the film, which is very illustrative.
Han Meidi: The two men—cousin Ralph and Goodwood from the United States—are very good-hearted. Such movies are very useful to watch.
The film finally brought the man who had pursued her together with her, and still made people see hope.
Yu Yiping: Cousin Ralph is noble. Isabel is arrogant. It was Osmond’s lover, Mrs. May, who introduced Isabel to Osmond, and actually killed Isabel. Compared to Isabel's situation, Osmond's conditions are not good. Why did Isabel fall in love with such a man? I can't figure it out a bit. This processing seems rough. The film finally brought Goodwood, the man who used to pursue her, to come with her, and it still made people see hope.
The image of Mrs. May can be said to be an important carrier that negatively reflects the female consciousness of the original novel and the female director of the film.
Van Daming: Mrs. May can be said to be the most important female image in the film after Isabel. She is even more arrogant than Isabel. In the film, she first won Isabel's favor with her mastery of piano music. Isabel also admired Mrs. May when she met her, and believed that she was the best portrayal of a woman's success in society. It was at the instigation of Mrs. May that Isabel fell in love with Osmond, Mrs. May's secret concubine until they got married. This is a woman similar to the Wang Xifeng style in "A Dream of Red Mansions", a strong woman who has exhausted all the powers. Of course, she is ambitious, and her final destiny is not good. As she said, the most exciting is over, but what about herself I didn't get it either: no husband, no children, no property, not even his own house. Of course, there are no children, but in name, Pansy is actually the illegitimate daughter of her and Osmond. In addition, she is also the woman with the strongest feminine consciousness in the film, and she knows that women are always on the surface in society and are everywhere inferior to men. The image of Mrs. May can be said to be an important carrier that negatively reflects the female consciousness of the original novel and the female director of the film. The performance of this role is also very good. Its actor Barbara Hirsch was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 69th Academy Awards.
Isabel grew up in life, and her experience like this has something to do with her personality, age, etc.
Hong He: Isabel grew up in life, and she finally understood it. Her experience has something to do with her personality, age and so on. I'm from Shanghai to travel. I have seen the director's "Piano Lesson". I saw another film by this director, so I watched it.
Van Daming: Jane Campion's "Piano Lesson" will be screened next week. This shows that Jane Campion's "Piano Lesson" has a deep influence among our audience.
Isabel is actually very pure. She later changed. It was life itself that became her life's classroom.
Lu Yayuan: Isabel is actually a very pure girl.
Fan Daming: Her purity, on the other hand, is still immature. The problem is that she thinks she has independent opinions and likes to do her own way. This is the core of the contradiction in her character. Her tragic love and marriage story taught her a bitter lesson. She also paid the price for it. Of course she changed later, and it was life itself that became her life's classroom. Only after practicing and hitting a wall will we change.
Sun Fengfeng: As long as one of the husband and wife does not trust each other and does not communicate well, the relationship will be affected.
The film is a feminist style from story content to artistic performance, including the rational consciousness and emotional nature of female consciousness
Fan Daming: The film is a feminist style from story content to artistic performance. The image of Mrs. Meyer mentioned above is a prominent representative, although it may be negative. Judging from the image of the first protagonist Isabel, she has already shown that in the first half of the film, she rejected the marriage proposal of three more outstanding men. In the traditional British concept of marriage at that time, "marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog" is also a universal truth; but Isabel did not want to do so, she would do the opposite, and even thought that she could not marry for life. In a conversation with her cousin, she said that she could not escape her own destiny, which is to "never give up"—— And her refusal is to not give up-if she marries easily, it means she will give up many opportunities and risks that life may bring her. This is undoubtedly a manifestation of a strong female consciousness, and of course a manifestation of rational consciousness. I think this film is more valuable because it also shows the emotional nature of female consciousness, that is, in terms of human emotions, the requirements of women are exactly the same as those of men, or in no way inferior to those of men. True essence. This is the original meaning of the "lady's true color" that the title of the film comes down to! In the voiceovers collected in the opening film, we heard all kinds of candid confession when girls talked about forming erotic relationships with men-the moment of the first kiss between men and women, the attraction of being close to young men, the kind of intoxication and lingering, as if The feeling of electric shock and so on. In the film story, there are two places where Isabel wrote about Isabel's specific performance in this regard. One is Goodwood from the United States, tracking her to come to the UK where she lives and wooing her. When she refused or had to look at him for two years before replying, Goodwood was affectionate with his hands before bidding farewell. After stroking her face, the film showed that she was in the room for a long time remembering this stroking, and the resulting strong reaction in her mind and body, even triggered her to accept that three men are intimate with her at the same time The illusion of contact; the second is to visit the ancient castle buildings in Florence, she followed the tour guide and Osmond into the dark bunker, Osmond bluntly said when he found that he fell in love with her. Although she still said no, saying that she would be separated from him soon, and waited until the next time, but when Ao opened her little parasol to block the only beam of light in the bunker and kissed her In the end, Isabel was completely disarmed and succumbed to his lust. In both situations, the film is accompanied by the same main melody music that is gradually played to the extreme loudness ("Family Dora Fami", and the variation is "Famire Mi Fami"), and I am watching it. At that time, there was indeed a strong emotional shock. These two films fully express the emotional nature of female consciousness, and are the director's magical pen in the artistic expression of the entire film in order to reveal the basic themes of the film. Just now a speaker spoke about why Isabel would accept Osmond’s courtship all at once — I think, as a lady, if you were in such a situation, you would definitely have the same result. This also tells us (men and boys) that in love, it is not only love letters or the so-called "WeChat" that conquer women or girls, but also rely on practical actions, relying on your body itself. The emotional nature of consciousness is the magical touch of the film's artistic expression that the director has given to reveal the basic themes of the film. Just now a speaker spoke about why Isabel would accept Osmond’s courtship all at once — I think, as a lady, if you were in such a situation, you would definitely have the same result. This also tells us (men and boys) that in love, it is not only love letters or the so-called "WeChat" that conquer women or girls, but also rely on practical actions, relying on your body itself. The emotional nature of consciousness is the magical touch of the film's artistic expression that the director has given to reveal the basic themes of the film. Just now a speaker spoke about why Isabel would accept Osmond’s courtship all at once — I think, as a lady, if you were in such a situation, you would definitely have the same result. This also tells us (men and boys) that in love, it is not only love letters or the so-called "WeChat" that conquer women or girls, but also rely on practical actions, relying on your body itself.
Organizer's Note: This summary is the 131st summary of the forum since the establishment of Hangzhou Henglu Art Film Club.
Finished January 12-13, 2017
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